Bridge Winners Profile for Richard Willey

Basic Information

Member Since

Jan. 21, 2011

Last Seen

9 minutes ago

Member Type

Bridge Player

about me

My academic background is as a mathematical economist, focusing on game theory and mechanism design. I have a Masters in Economics from Indiana University and dual Masters in Management and Engineering from MIT.

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For the last 20 years I have pretty much lived at the intersection of TCP/IP networking and mathematical modeling. I spent my first 10 years out of school working for various networking companies. For the last 10 years I have split my time between the MathWorks where I was the manager for MATLAB's statistics system and Akamai Technologies. I currently work with the Adversarial Resilience team at Akamai, focusing on event detection, capacity planning, and Transport Layer Security.

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I don't have many real achievements in the world of bridge, though I am fairly well know on BBO (and earlier on OKB). Bridgewise, I am probably most proud of my MOSCITO notes (which I really need to finish one of these days)

Country

United States of America

Bridge Information

Favorite Bridge Memory

Making 2HX vulnerable in a 3-3 fit after psyching during a "Montreal Relay" sequence and getting an aggressive raise from partner.

> A number of readers responded with hurrahs for the new clarity.
> Yet, even now there is considerable misunderstanding,
> despite Bridge Bulletin articles.
People are ALWAYS going to be confused about the rules. This is part and parcel of the game. There's no point going around clutching at your pearls ...

> I think the OP as well as the fascinating reply by Michael
> Askgaard are related, not to mixed strategies, but rather
> to the question of transitivity in the dominance of some
> choices over others.
potyato
patahto
Mixed strategies occur when you have a non transitivity.
If you structure rational choice ...

> There must be a way to separate out the individual
> strengths of the partners, especially when one is a pro.
There most certainly are...
However, being able accurate rank partnerships is much easier and the first step that should be taken. Once this is done, its worth considering ways to ...

> that he/she literally "cannot believe" that there are people
> who want to play with actual cards in their hands.
I believe that the original comment was somewhat more nuanced...
I think that Eric accepts that there are people who prefer to play the game using cards. However, he doesn ...

> There are many players -- including world-class experts --
> who want to continue handling the "bits of cardboard."
Yeap.
They also really wanted to be allowed to smoke during events.
And then, of course, there were all the people who were going to quite because we started to use bidding boxes.
And ...